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Personal Relationship Manager

I am a tad obsessive about my address book. While there are several thousand people in it, I tend to believe that I need to make sure that they stay current and I look to my address book as the center of my social network. but it ought to work more like a personal relationship [...]

2007 Predictions

This year marks the 10th anniversary edition of the TNL.net predictions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been batting above 50 percent in terms of predictions, except when it comes to naming what will happen with specific companies. The trends are generally correct (or in some case, early) and I always look at [...]

2006 Predictions – The Review

It’s been a tradition on TNL.net to have predictions for the coming year and I will soon have a set out for 2007 but before I move on to that, I need to fulfill the other tradition on TNL.net, which is to look at the previous year’s predictions and rate how successful (or not) I [...]

Could Apple Solidify GSM in the US?

ThinkSecret reports that the much-rumored-about iPhone from Apple is coming and will be available exclusively through Cingular. If true, it would mean that Apple has decided to take a position on what phone stack it is willing to support and has come out on the side of GSM. Understanding the mobile landscape In a lot [...]

Ruthless Efficiencies

As readers of this site know, I strongly believe that we are now in the middle of a major overall shift in economic trend that hasn’t been seen since the introduction of the paper bill in late 1700s england. Seen under this lens, I’m starting to think that there may be some truths to the [...]

Future Tense — IPzation

The concept of IPzation, in my view, is that everything electronic interaction is moving to a level where the communication will happen over an Internet Protocol layer. We are already starting to see the beginning of that phenomenon with Voice Over IP, which moves the traditional phone communications over to the Internet. Similarly, television stations [...]

2006 Predictions

Since 1997, It’s been a long running game here at TNL.net central to make wild predictions about the upcoming year that have turned out to be only somewhat off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this [...]

2005 Predictions: Keeping the Score

So it’s that time of the year. As is the case every year, I’m reviewing the predictions I made last year and looking at the score. Voice Over IP The big surprise here was the acquisition game. When I made the predictions last year, i thought that the acquirers would be larger telcos. However, companies [...]

Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal

AOL bought Weblogs inc., the two year old weblog network founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey, for a number that is rumored to be anywhere between $25 million and $40 million. In this process, Time Warner may be providing some ideas as to the valuation of blogs by traditional media. The power of the [...]

Why Scale Matters

Jeff Jarvis says that scale doesn’t scale. Fred Wilson follows up by talking about the new scale. While I agree that new markets can be born out of aggregation, I disagree with the concept of scale not scaling. The problem is one of, well, scale. Let’s say that I want to make a movie that [...]